Dennis Willis: Poems

Nature

Dennis Willis Jan 2022

Nature

Get my attention
wave a frond
feathery edges
undulating
I'm yours

Dennis Willis Sep 2018

Are these egotistical?
My pride
Flopping about?

Or is
My fear

Flipping
Out

Yelping
Lines

Naught else
Squeals

Like a poet
Stuck

Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis

#mule4poetry

Ned

Dennis Willis Feb 20

Ned

******>Ned
Ag
Ain

No
need
Fo
Pan

Need

Dennis Willis Oct 2021

Need

I don't want to own you
I want to be deep
inside you
now
now
now

Needful Cuff Link

Dennis Willis Jul 2021

Needful Cuff Link

I've listened to so many stories
of men
arriving just in time

Told some
to renew
something
that is never clear
and always needy

I need you to need me
not be able to do without
me

Me
Not something that could be thrown away easily

What happens
When I am discarded
Is my last human moment
when I know my true role

A hand in a fire brigade
passing wetness
forward
to be poured
on newborns
who will laugh
the laugh
of I am
now

In the most
Spectacular
way

Nerg y

Dennis Willis Jun 2021

Nerg y

Another skint knee
as I clamber
these rocky flows

seconds separate
this assertion
and your apprehension

just not clear
in what
direction

care
doesn't flow
where I want

where I imagine
as I imagined
I earned it

does it for you
flow easily
home

Nerves

Dennis Willis Mar 2022

Nerves

I just let
the words
emerge
that follow
this contextual
curve

til comes a
swerve

N E Thin Elsie

Dennis Willis Nov 2020

N E Thin Elsie

Destructs and restructs chop cross my eyes
trailing highs and thighs and sighs and wrys
I'm calmed on this channel's brit subterfuge
Just not the news the election news blues
How did not all of these clowns lose lose lose
All the layers churn and spike argue of right
And I think of light and my knees clamber
Smooth floors and roomless doors stretch out
O I think in bad TV and live in bad science
Reading news I shouldn't 'n' think about else

Never City

Dennis Willis Aug 2021

Never City

You are never
just a poem away
from anything
even tho you think
this one will
do the trick

New 'Gain

Dennis Willis May 2022

New 'Gain

You know when hate
enters your heart
its left hand your right
shake it all about
take a direction
you know the one
now take a deep breath
let her go let him go
let it go let all go
I am understood
to be confusing
it's the naiveté
that is so hard
to achieve
when I want to be

New Girl Says What

Dennis Willis Sep 2020

New Girl Says What

It is just this space I need
place

place meant for me

place

sewn from nows
in taxi cabs
searching cross town
for chemistry

place

i've been placed
a piece
annotated
pretent

off the board
suspicious
of your likeness
being you

News About You

Dennis Willis Jun 2021

News About You

The wetness of a sentence
soaking in
news about you

where do I keep
all these invisible
structures

falling through
edges distant
and several

things you can take
rubbing my eye
closed as can be

New Words Meaning

Dennis Willis Mar 2023

New Words Meaning

this is time
bleeding out
i've a certificate
of please continue
i resist all of your
entreaties to abjure
some or any
tomorrow
row row row
some any boat
and if i could be
dry any dry and
warm and dry
any warm any dry
i would be high so
high just to be
not so thirsty

Night

Dennis Willis Oct 2019

Night

Want this
and
fidgiting

Phantom
skin
and delight

Clear wins
of
distraction

I have
a
list of things

undone
by

Night

Dennis Willis Dec 2020

Night

All the games are done
for the night
and I will lay my head
down to rest

Night Moth

Dennis Willis May 2019

Night Moth

The rustle of a small animal
in the woods
is furtive
leaves being pushed aside
the buzz of a fat beetle
bouncing against my screen
You are a night moth
white silently fluttering wings
never landing

Nights

Dennis Willis Sep 2019

Nights

Reaching
makes me squirm
I am agitated

I've watched
risking it all's
truth crush me

I am reaching
for

Admitting
want of

Still bawling
over you

Night to You

Dennis Willis Apr 2021

Night to You

Why can't you feel the edge you're on
what blinds you to the knives of time
while they carve from now tomorrow

Oh how I gleefully feed myself to them
this is not sacrifice nor submission
I'm just the material supplier to mine

I am Light slowing down speeding up
playing with itself tossed in airy time
playing at becoming night sweet night

Always sculpting myself with you and it
shouldn't be the source of my anxiety
as contrast makes the Light show

So beautifully

Niton

Dennis Willis Sep 2019

Niton

Relax into the universe
You are here for a reason

Relax into the universe
You are it sneezing

Relax into the universe
You are a peyote button away

Relax into the universe
You are amscray

Relax into the universe
As if the blank verse

Prolapse into the underverse
you are amscray

No

Dennis Willis May 2020

No

None of this
The lying part of me
Has decided
Is for you

I just need a place
To put this
That is outside
Of me

How a perfect thing
behaves so badly
Confounds all
My cleverness

My gasps past
became distant
and my need
Overcomes

No

Dennis Willis Apr 2023

No

I feel such concern for you
egg sticky thing that you are
hating myself and unable to
help it will you trust me to
say you cannot know
how much

NO

Dennis Willis Aug 2021

NO

It needs to all
come crashing
down
Doesn't It

Nobody Hears

Dennis Willis Jun 2022

Nobody Hears

Nobody hears
anything
I love you
ever

No Bottom Road

Dennis Willis Jul 2019

No Bottom Road

Stealing second place
in my own heart
First is unoccupied
as of this writing

What have I earned
with this life so far
As if as if I could
earn another turn

Who to be who to be
today lies fallow
a willing partner
to whatever mischief

I and this scrambling fool
careening around my noggin
sipping too sweet coffee
dreading and scheming

Are concocting that will not
result with me here
writing earnestly
onto bottomlessness night

No Clue

Dennis Willis Jan 2022

No Clue

Murky almost
poetry
spurks from
my mind
I am inclined
to not mind
as I accrete
skid marks
in sticky time

No Line

Dennis Willis Jul 2021

No Line

I have let these things go
You for example
The center
Gone awry

And all
the carefully orbited
mirrors
reflecting you

their lines of sight
edges of something
we made solid
now bursting

glittering away
bright flashing bits
there gone there gone
gone effortlessly

these questions
we ask ourselves
about why oh why

No One

Dennis Willis Nov 2018

No One

No one holds me in time
now

Turns out they never did

The speed of the stream is now terrifying
Banks sweep by of faces and galaxy's
of faces loom like gray chalk on darkness

Was a bubble we rode eyes inward
into

tomfoolery blind and hormone puppets
it was often delicious

No One Loves No One

Dennis Willis Dec 2020

No One Loves No One

I need help tonight
it isn't right
this alone

No One to Ask

Dennis Willis Aug 2023

No One to Ask

I have questions
about poetry
and whether
it causes
loneliness
or not

No One Will Ever

Dennis Willis Apr 2019

No One Will Ever

No one will ever study these lines
As I studied the Great's in school

Chaucer competed I think
With nine other folks who could light a line
And a couple thou who could read one

All the people alive in Chaucer's time
Are less than the number
Of poets writing today

Those fat roots
We trillion leaves
Fall unread

So write
your light
right for you

I don't actually
exist
fluttering

Colorfully
to the ground

in fall sunshine
onto green grass

becoming suspended
on their blades

Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis

Nooo You Die

Dennis Willis Oct 2019

Nooo You Die

I know you're a bunch of fukin poets
I know you're broken fukin hearted
I know you're questin fukin evrythn
I know you're 'bout fukin sure of something
if we'd just listen

what fukin what then eh
we listened we read we cried
ah my life has changed thank you

maybe we even became crude
a suspicious word i say
an opinion and all those are
useless except the playful ones

No Opinion

Dennis Willis Sep 2019

No Opinion

Today I am rearranging
all the furniture
in my head space
again

I tried to drive across town
during rush hour
driving into a blinding
sunrise
while having no opinions

Epic hilarious success

Without all my opinions
Regarding your driving skills
Your apparent intelligence
Your visual acuity
Or whether or not you are actually
even awake

Without all of my opinions
It turned out
I was just out for a drive
On a beautiful sunny morning

So this giant machine
I found dominating my headspace
Pumping out negative critical opinions
continuously about everything
Completely uselessly
And depressing

is being thrown the **** out

Nope

Dennis Willis Jul 2019

Nope

Nothing eats time
like finding
the next line

NOpe

Dennis Willis Oct 2019

NOpe

Give it up
you can't keep up

Nopetry

Dennis Willis Mar 2024

Nopetry

Rubbery words
aren't getting it done
these stretching's
breaking sense
pulling rents
over holes in hours
of this-again again
and that ****-that again

not even words
detailing
not even feelings
not even ever now
the exact when
of not again
not now

sloughs of meaning
leavings of lies
marched on or off
the stage to cries
of hold on what does
no it doesn't again
over and over again

carcasses of clever
thinking thunk over
by paws scraping
lines in wood floors
of nevermore
artfully again

No Rattle

Dennis Willis Apr 2019

No Rattle

It was
*** u
raw tonight

A street quarrel
the ex

I back away
shaking

the melt
to plaint

Can't see hooks come out
Barbed like that *****
Try bite into u

No
I rattle my ******* brain

Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis

Norhmal

Dennis Willis Jul 2022

Norhmal

So I've been
just like you've
been

Spinning
seeking
trying

unspun
nightly
now

and here
just here
'gain

Norms

Dennis Willis Oct 2021

Norms

I'd take something seriously
'cept I know better
since I learned
to make stuff up
so I'd be taken
seriously

almost everything
I was taught to believe
someone made up
so they'd be taken
seriously
seriously

and now we're stuck
with their creative
inventions
and a stupidly
serious nature
we all hate

Noscarel

Dennis Willis Dec 2018

Noscarel

Evlu olenis Durham
Evlu olenus

Compterel Tersa soronis
Nerse

Onsut esr tinagra
Estara

Not Answering

Dennis Willis Oct 2019

Not Answering

I don't care about you
anymore
I have learned my lesson
about you
you and your fancy words
dancing down
everything with that frown
i can't e'n
find a smile for your need
anymore

Not Choosing

Dennis Willis Dec 2018

Not Choosing

Not choosing butthurt
Not
Choooo-ooooosing
Butthurt

Not choosing it
Not doin' it
Nope
Un-unh

Not choosing butthurt
Again
Still
Finally I'm laughing

Not choosing all the stupids
In a funny way
Seems to staunch
the flow of stupid thinking

Please join me
in amusement
at my willingness
to steep myself

in negative emotion
because
because
because

Because
of the relieving
things
this does

Copyright@2018 Dennis Willis

Not Dying

Dennis Willis Jul 2023

Not Dying

This thickness I feel
I've been inhibited
as if surgery waited
and you were
indifferent

cut away margins
of caring
boilt bone
and steam
an' I slough off

heaps of me
slagging down
upon myself
piles of mess
to be done with

and me hoping
for reinterpretation
of these scrapings
and small puddles
glistening with

Note

Dennis Willis Aug 2021

Note

Here is a key
to my poetry

G

Note 1

Dennis Willis Feb 2019

Note 1

The presence of interaction,
at least initially,
destroys localization
in a cloud
of quantum particles,
and allows
the cloud to escape
and smear out,
though very slowly
and subdiffusively.

I swear
This happened to me Thursday
Exactly this way
Spooky

Copyright@2019 Dennis Willis

1. https://phys.org/news/2019-02-breaching-horizons-universal-laws.amp
About a third of the way in the article.

Then I found this doozy. Honest. I cannot grasp writing the following sentence without serious intoxicants.

The laws that explain how pizza gets uniformly cooked in an oven are not valid for systems of atoms at ultracold temperatures. A team of researchers at the Center for Theoretical Physics of Complex Systems, within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS, South Korea) has designed an innovative method to study how interacting particles behave at temperatures close to absolute zero, and found a situation where the laws of thermodynamics and statistical mechanics are not respected, energy is not evenly distributed, and equilibrium is not reached. Their findings are published in Physical Review Letters.

And poets are not revered!

#foundpoetry #science

Not Even Knowing

Dennis Willis Oct 2023

Not Even Knowing

The make believe
enshrouds us
and we like it
like being it
this taste
knowing

nothing
saves us
for tomorrow
still imagined
landing gear opens
or; they could be wings

Not for Thinking

Dennis Willis Dec 2020

Not for Thinking

So, you require I go all the way down
to the question to the half-hearted angst
feel this surface with your fingers against

Slippery a universal quality we all slide
you know you want to slide into place ahh
be this connection insulated by another's

the saying of want seers inside mostly unsaid
paroxysms of nobody told me my body liked that
instead, they told me lies and asked for money

to buy more wet sand and porous webbing
they use to hold together explanations
made up by villagers ignorant of math and self

i descend rapidly from glossy realms of exaltation
zippered into tight-fitting and heavy breathing aints
to salve and 'suade selves that thought should stop

Not Glistening

Dennis Willis Jul 2019

Not Glistening

Night times
waiting
while you close
the store down
An it just rained
July night
Broken heat
Dissolving
everything
not glistening

Not Here

Dennis Willis Sep 2020

Not Here

The beach inside
soaked
in counterintelligence
arms draw away
now so hot
i cannot
key in the data
answerings to why
unbidden and wrong
swim forward near enough
i grimmace at the light
flight

Nothing

Dennis Willis Jun 2021

Nothing

What of beauty
might I confer
upon this
mental space
we entangle
here

knot of some
angst
molten feeling
of lust
scrabbling's from
terror

is it me that
is running
away
from imagined
death at
your hands

or is it
you wielding
thoughtful
balderdash
hardened and
sharpened